FBI Cointelpro Program - How Government Agents Neutralize Liberty Activism

This is kind of a long article, but it was written by someone who had been used by the FBI and only found out about it more than 20 years later via FOIAs. Cointelpro is here. Be of good cheer, but always be aware. The person whispering gossip in your ear may be themselves being used by Cointelpro or be Cointelpro themselves.

A guide to dealing with government shills in the freedom movement, and the common strategies of infiltration. How Government agents distract human rights activists from defending freedom.

The FBI COINTELPRO program was initiated in 1956. COINTELPRO is an acronym for Counter Intelligence program. Google the term COINTELPRO and you will find hundreds of web pages from all different types of political perspectives.

Liberty activists made a serious mistake by ignoring the creation of COINTELPRO, and by not resisting the illegal and treacherous tactics that were used. Even before 911 it was possible to convince people that our security required that we allow the FBI to "cut corners" for the "good of America". At that time the FBI seemed to be defending liberty rather than suppressing dissent. While COINTELPRO was allegedly terminated in 1971, FOIA requests have shown that COINTELPRO still exists, and is even more aggressive that ever. At one time COINTELPRO was only used against those who worked for tyranny.

"The FBI COINTELPRO program was initiated in 1956. Its purpose, as
described later by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, was "to expose, disrupt,
misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize activities" of those
individuals and organizations whose ideas or goals he opposed. Tactics
included: falsely labeling individuals as informants; infiltrating groups
with persons instructed to disrupt the group; sending anonymous or forged
letters designed to promote strife between groups; initiating politically
motivated IRS investigations; carrying out burglaries of offices and
unlawful wiretaps; and disseminating to other government agencies and to
the media unlawfully obtained derogatory information on individuals and
groups."

If you understand the meaning of the tactic "to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize activities" you will understand that the person who is most likely of being a Fed, is the one who involves human rights activists in activities that have no effect on those who are building tyranny, and activities that will destroy the credibility of the human rights activists.

Misdirecting activities involves the goal of actually taking over the leadership. Taking over the leadership is the highest priority. Beware of new comers who volunteer to lead.. Also understand that often those, who are working for intelligence agencies, do not even know who it is, for whom they are working. Disrupting only becomes the goal when there is a failure to take over the leadership. These two goals are summarized as "rule or ruin".

Misdirecting activities is a fairly simple thing in organizations that put their agenda up for a vote. Infiltrators simply present alternative agendas until they have the organization bogged down with foolishness.

By law, political parties, and political candidates, are regulated by the Federal Election Commission. Political parties operate according to parliamentary procedure; and therefore do not have a fixed body of principles. Political party platforms come up for a VOTE.

Federal Election Commission (which means the whole federal government) has access to everything that we do INSIDE OF A PARTY, and they dictate how we will do it. Political parties are an easy target for control by government shills, and most of the government shills will have extensive experience working inside of a political party.

Central control is the strength of our adversaries. Grass roots organizing is our strength. If we stay organized at the local level then they cannot take us over from the top.

Imagine two armies facing each other: One is commanded by a General; the other is run by a steering committee.

In the army is that is commanded by a General, the General gives the order to CHARGE, AND THE ARMY GOES INTO A CHARGE.

In the army that is run by a steering committee, the Chairman of the steering committee says "I move that we load our weapons, Is there a second to that motion?"

Everyone except one infiltrator says "I second that motion!"

The Chairman of the steering committee says "Is there any discussion?"

Everyone except one infiltrator says "Sir, we had better start shooting back. At the rate that they are killing us, very soon we will not have a quorum!"

The one infiltrator says "Point of order sir: We cannot vote on a motion to start shooting back, while we still have a motion on the floor to load our weapons."

WHO WOULD WIN THAT BATTLE?

If an organization does not operate according to parliamentary procedure the infiltrators will attempt to change that. If the leadership understands this tactic they will decline to make this change. The infiltrator will then move on to creating dissension among the members over this, and over any other issue that they can raise.

Misdirecting activities by presenting alternative agendas usually involves promoting hoaxes. Those who are building tyranny would love to convince people that we are all
a bunch of paranoid nuts, so that we will we unable to warn people about the building of tyranny. Those who are building tyranny would be more capable of convincing people that we are paranoid nuts, if they could convince a segment of the human rights activists to run around telling people that the clouds, and the street signs, are out to get us.

Effective organizations have a fixed permanent agenda. Members vote for that agenda by joining the group. Anyone who wishes to vote against that agenda does so by leaving the group.

If you understand the meaning of the tactic "infiltrating groups with persons instructed to disrupt the group; sending anonymous or forged letters designed to promote strife between groups" THEN you will know that a myriad of personal attacks and whisper campaigns is a part of the COINTELPRO program. Only the accusation that cannot withstand a demand for evidence will be whispered behind the back of the accused.

Often an article such as this is an effective way of "smoking out" the government shill. If there is a government shill reading this we invite you to identify yourself with your usual tactics of ridicule, innuendo, and personal attacks.

Those who would like to identify government shills might want to take note of who it is who objects to the distribution of this article. It would be safe to conclude that if one were to throw a rock into a pen full of pigs, and one of them squealed, that the one that had squealed, would be the one that you had hit. No one's name is mentioned here, but sometimes there will be someone who will claim that this is an accurate description of themselves. In that case we might agree with them.

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." --- Henry David Thoreau

Imagine living in a nation where arsonists set fires everyday. The best fire department in the world cannot save this nation without stopping the arsonists from setting the fires. There is a massive propaganda campaign urging that we should only work on putting out the fires, but do nothing about the arsonists. Is this simple stupidity, or is this massive propaganda campaign the work of the arsonists?

More detail on TACTICS

Creating Strife Among Human Rights Activists

It is VERY simple: Those who spend their time fighting tyranny, are human rights activists. Those who spend their time fighting human rights activists are working for the advancement of tyranny. We learn who the most effective human rights activists are, by seeing who the government shills attack. We learn who the government shills are, by seeing who attacks the most effective human rights activists. This would be a consistently reliable way of identifying government shills except for the fact that government shills are incredibly clever at deceiving others into doing their dirty work. The government agents do not create all of this strife by themselves. They have psychological profiles on all of us, and they know how to push people. A few misfits can be manipulated to do it all. The person who is creating strife often does not understand that he or she is being manipulated by a government shill. Government shills look for people who are argumentative, or immature, and simply fuel their disruption. Of course, there are normal people who get "miffed" from time to time... but they get over it, if no one reponds. Government shills and misfits never get over it. This is how you will know which is which.

After the initiation of hostility the infiltrator expects one of two reactions:

1) Appeasement

or

2) Resistance

Appeasement leads to the accomplishment of the primary objective of taking control.

Resistance leads to the accomplishment of the secondary objective of creating strife.

The only effective response to the initiation of hostility is to restructure all activities so as to avoid the person who is creating the strife. SWAT THE FLY, AND MOVE ON.

Ignore the initiation of strife, and go back to defending liberty. Do not participate in the strife. Do not retaliate. Do not even defend yourself. Just show, by your own example, how defending liberty continues. Expect the government shill to claim that ignoring them is, itself, a hostile behavior. It may take a while, but if you steadfastly refrain from participating in strife, eventually people will notice that all of the strife is originating from the same place. Since the goal of the shill is to create strife, you cannot win by fighting back. You win by avoiding the strife.

Deceiving Human Rights Activists into Supporting Hoaxes

We can defend freedom, or we can fall for hoaxes. We cannot do both.

There is a presence, in the freedom movement, of persons who attempt to distract human rights activists away from defending liberty, by seducing them into all sorts of silly programs; which would ultimately waste resources, make them appear to be foolish,

and cause them to lose credibility.

This includes claims that the vapor trails; that jets always leave, are a plot to poison us.
This includes claims that the stickers, placed on the back of road signs by manufacturers, are some sort of trail blazing for a future enemy army.
This even includes a propaganda blitz to BAN WATER, by using its scary sounding chemical name: Dihydrogen Monoxide

Very few people will actually fall for the "tin foil hat" hoax, but this is used as a "straw man" fallacy to ridicule those who expose the real dangers to liberty.

Deceiving Human Rights Activists into Creating Class Struggle

by Promoting Ethnic Hatred.

The conspiracy, that we fight, is NOT a group of religious people. They believe in NOTHING else except power, and money, for themselves. The theory that they work for the benefit of a religion, or a nation, or a race, ascribes to them a self sacrificing characteristic; which they do not have. When they are in power, they persecute religious people of all faiths. Neither virtue nor sin is hereditary. There are good and bad in all kinds.

The problem is, that in order to have credibility you MUST be consistently right. Slanting everything so that it always comes up ethnic, just discredits the rest of your information. If there is one cockroach in the sugar bowl most people will throw out the whole bowl of sugar.

Attempting to Waste the Time of Human Rights Activists

The primary methods for wasting the time of human rights activists is by forcing them to respond to personal attacks, whisper campaigns, and by endless debate about trivia or hoaxes. Endless debate about trivia or hoaxes is extremely easy to accomplish in organizations which vote on their agenda. Wasting the time of human rights activists is often accomplished automatically by the pursuit of the other goals that are discussed above as described by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover: "to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize activities".

The only solution is to just set the distractions of infiltrators aside, and go back to work opposing tyranny. In this way neutralizers do not waste the time of freedom activists. Just dispense with them, with a standard response. Reviewing this article is an effective standard response. Understanding who is really doing this will help immensely:

Liberty activists are born of the realization that liberty is in danger. The liberty activist looks for a remedy. An organization presents itself as the solution, and then recruits large numbers of liberty activists. Eventually the liberty activists begin to equate promoting the organization with defending liberty. In essence, the tool for accomplishing the mission, BECOMES the mission. Then the agenda of the organization is gradually changed away from effective opposition to tyranny to some other activity. The new agenda might be INEFFECTIVE opposition to tyranny, or it might be some other activity that is totally unrelated to the opposition to tyranny. Those who go back to defending liberty will be called "turncoats" by the government shills who have failed to deceive them.

COINTELPRO is the sign of a capable, money-making Government keeping freedom at bay so that they can rape and plunder among their own citizens. It's a whole lot easier than going off to fight a war and plunder the citizens of some other government that is trying to do the same thing to its citizens.

Comment by Henry Bowman

Entered on: 1/21/2014 4:44:39 PM

Often an article such as this is an effective way of "smoking out" the government shill. If there is a government shill reading this we invite you to identify yourself with your usual tactics of ridicule, innuendo, and personal attacks. Those who would like to identify government shills might want to take note of who it is who objects to the distribution of this article.

"Poisoning the well" is a tactic beneath the morals of a true rational proponent of liberty.

Comment by Sam Weathersby

Entered on: 2/16/2010 1:43:25 PM

How bout some 'infiltrating' of the secret negotiations by C-Span when the Dems hide to hammer out more socialism? Why not some investigation into wheather or not Mr. O is Constitutionally eligble to be Prez? Maybe he is. Maybe he isn't. But we do not know for sure.

I guess it could apply to both except that the FBI Cointelpro program is not a conspiracy theory. It's well documented fact.

Comment by Ross Wolf

Entered on: 2/16/2010 8:34:36 AM

Top Obama Czar Proposed Infiltrating all 'Conspiracy
Theorists'

From a recent news report, it appears Obama CZAR Cass
Sunstein, supports infiltrating and spying on Americans, their groups and
organizations to obstruct Free Speech, disrupt the exchange of ideas and
disseminate false information to neutralize Americans that might question
government. See: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=121884

Obama’s CZAR’s proposal mirrors in several respects,
Rep. Jane Harman's "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention
Act" HR 1955, introduced in 2007 that stressed disrupting political and
other groups without evidence of wrongdoing. Interestingly Obama refused to
take a position on this bill.

Democrat Rep. Harman's "Violent Radicalization
and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act" was not written exactly like the
Nazi 1933 Discriminatory Decrees that suspended the Reich Constitution, but
could bring America to the same place by trashing America’s civil liberties.
The "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act"
when closely examined, defined "homegrown terrorism" as "any
planned act" that might use force to coerce the U.S. Government or its
people to promote or accomplish a "political or social objective." No
actual force need occur. Government need only charge that an individual or
group “Thought” about it. This bill was passed by the House but later died in a
Senate Committee after Americans became angry upon learning about it.

Subject to potential abuse, U.S. Government has laid
the groundwork for the covert infiltration of Americans. Since 9/11 federal
government has established across the nation a large number of Fusion Centers.
Fusion Centers were originally established to improve the sharing of
anti-terrorism intelligence among different state, local and federal law
enforcement agencies. But has since expanded with encouragement of federal
government to pursue all crimes and hazards. Fusion Centers now pursue for
analysis not just criminal and terrorist information, but any information that
can be derived from police, public records and private sector data about
Americans. Fusion Centers increasingly are involving components of the U.S.
Military in addition to other government entities to spy on Citizens. The
centers heavily rely on local informants for information that is shared with
Local, State, and Federal police agencies. Recently the Department of Homeland
Security began sharing more classified Military information with local Fusion
Centers; perhaps a mistake, historically local police have not kept secrets.

Because Fusion Centers operate secretly and some more
independently than others, it is not possible to clarify their full purpose.
However it is clear Fusion Centers circumvent Fourth Amendment Constitutional
protections that prohibit illegal search and seizure, by taking advantage of
ambiguous lines of authority to manipulate differences in federal, state and
local laws to maximize information collection.

Increasingly (private security companies and their
operatives) work so closely with local/federal law enforcement and Fusion
Centers—providing and exchanging information about Americans, they appear to
merge with police. That is what happened in Germany during the 1930’s when a
private-Gestapo merged its operations with German State Police, later put under
the "Reich Main Security Office” the equivalent of U.S. Homeland Security.
Fusion Centers exchange information with select U.S. private sector companies;
that has enabled Fusion Centers to escape accountability and public oversight.

While the press on occasion has discussed Fusion
Centers invading the privacy of U.S. Citizens, media missed Fusion Centers’
involvement in criminal and civil asset forfeitures. It was problematic law
enforcement and private government contractors would gain wider access to
Fusion Center data to secure evidence to arrest Americans and or civilly
forfeit their property under Title 18USC and other
laws to keep part of the assets. Under U.S. federal civil forfeiture laws, a
person or business need not be convicted of a crime for government to forfeit
their assets. The standard of evidence for U.S. Government to civilly forfeit
property is a only “A preponderance of Evidence.” There are over 200 U.S. laws
and violations mentioned in the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 and
the Patriot Act that can subject property to civil asset forfeiture.

Just recently Pres. Obama's signed Executive Order EO
12425 that put INTERPOL above the United States Constitution. Obama’s Executive
Order authorized INTERPOL to act within the United States without being subject
to 4th Amendment Search and Seizure laws. It would appear INTERPOL can now tap
American phones without a warrant. U.S. Police can use INTERPOL to
circumvent the Fourth Amendment to arrest Americans and or forfeit assets by bringing INTERPOL into a criminal or civil investigation.